This record presents Version 8 of the manuscript“A-Theory: A Speculative Informational Framework for Emergent Gravity, Torsion Asymmetry, and the Non-Fundamentality of Time.” This updated version incorporates substantial structural refinement and clarification of scope. In particular, the manuscript now explicitly separates its physical core framework from speculative and philosophical extensions, ensuring that conceptual explorations are clearly distinguished from testable physical claims. Newly added sections expand the interpretive structure of the theory, including: A clarified discussion of speculative extensions beyond the physical core, A qualitative and explicitly non-empirical exploration of consciousness as a non-local informational phenomenon, An exploratory hypothesis relating planetary rotation and energy retention to chiral torsion asymmetry, A purely conceptual structural representation of cosmic genesis, emphasizing asymmetry and non-fundamental time without proposing physical cosmological equations. No new empirical claims, particles, or fundamental forces are introduced in this revision.All speculative elements are carefully labeled as non-physical, metaphorical, or organizational in intent. This version is intended to improve readability, conceptual transparency, and interdisciplinary accessibility, while preserving the exploratory nature of the original work.